Mexico election diary : What’s on Mexican minds ?

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  • Mexico election diary: What’s on Mexican minds? | The Economist
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    Mexico election diary
    What’s on Mexican minds?
    Jun 3rd 2012, 18:46 by T.W. | MEXICO CITY

    WITH a month to go until Mexico’s presidential election, everyone is thinking about politics. Or are they? A new poll asking which news stories have caught people’s attention suggests that campaign hasn’t grabbed everyone. A survey by Inteligencia Publica and Defoe asked people if they had heard about various big stories that had been in the news over the past couple of months. Of the top five, none was related to the election. Here, in order of the proportion of people who said they were aware of the event, are the biggest news stories in Mexico since March 24th:

    90%: a visit by Pope Benedict XVI

    86%: the ominous rumblings of Popocatépetl, Mexico City’s local volcano

    72%: the death of Julio Alemán, a Mexican actor

    69%: forest fires near the city of Guadalajara

    68%: the death of Carlos Fuentes, a Mexican novelist

    The biggest stories that were related to the election were a series of protest marches by students, a video made by an NGO showing children calling for an end to the country’s various problems (54%) and the case of Tomás Yarrington, a former state governor accused of links to organised crime, which he denies (51%).

    A healthy reminder, as we head into the weekend, that there is life beyond the campaign trail. We’ll be back next week with more election news.